innovation loans

Almost a year ago, Innovate UK formally announced the launch of the £50m innovation loans pilot programme at Innovate 2017 in Birmingham. Since October 2017, I have been travelling the length and breadth of the UK with colleagues from Innovate …

Last October, I wrote a blog to introduce our innovation loans. We then travelled around the UK to hold briefing events, before formally launching our £50m pilot programme at Innovate 2017. Our first innovation loans competition, for infrastructure systems first …

It was almost two years ago that the (then) Chancellor first mentioned innovation loans from Innovate UK, as part of the 2015 Spending Review. Since then, we have been working hard to develop a product that we believe will help …